Laboratory strains of Bacillus anthracis lose their ability to rapidly grow and sporulate compared to wildlife outbreak strains

• Michael H. Norris,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5285-0432

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• Diansy Zincke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Owen P. Leiser,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chemical and Biological Signature Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

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• Helen Kreuzer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chemical and Biological Signature Science, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, United States of America

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• Ted L. Hadfied,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

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• Jason K. Blackburn

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jkblackburn@ufl.edu

  Affiliations Spatial Epidemiology & Ecology Research Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America, Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0928-4831

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